SIPPING TEST: CHECKING FOR FAILURE OF FUEL ELEMENTS AT THE OPAL REACTOR

Smith, Michael Leslie,Bignell, Lindsey Jorden,Alexiev, Dimitri,Mo, Li Korean Nuclear Society 2010 Nuclear Engineering and Technology Vol.42 No.1

Sipping measurements were implemented at the Open Pool Australian Light water reactor (OPAL) to test for failure in reactor fuel elements. Fission product released by the fuel element into the pool water was measured using both High Purity Germanium (HPGe) detection via samples and a NaI(Tl) detection in-situ with the sipping device. Results from two fuel elements are presented.

Sipping Test: Checking for Failure of Fuel Elements at the OPAL Reactor

MICHAEL LESLIE SMITH,LINDSEY JORDEN BIGNELL,DIMITRI ALEXIEV1,LI MO 한국원자력학회 2010 Nuclear Engineering and Technology Vol.42 No.1

Sipping measurements were implemented at the Open Pool Australian Light water reactor (OPAL) to test for failure in reactor fuel elements. Fission product released by the fuel element into the pool water was measured using both High Purity Germanium (HPGe) detection via samples and a NaI(Tl) detection in-situ with the sipping device. Results from two fuel elements are presented.

On the Applications of Computer-Assisted Language Learning in a Military English Context

Smith, Michael Dean,Kim, Dongyoung 미래영어영문학회 2017 영어영문학 Vol.22 No.2

This paper critically reviews the pedagogical benefits and obstacles to applying CALL to military English learning in terms of the theories associated with CALL. The obstacles that hinder effective CALL practice in military settings can be attributable to a) a long-held behavioristic tradition for language learning such as rote memorization and repetitive drilling; b) the antithesis of traditional military sentiment against the shift of learning responsibility from the military to individuals; and c) military instructors who may be incapable of implementing effective CALL practice because of their own preconceptions, backgrounds and established skill sets. However, properly implemented CALL not only prepares learners linguistically and culturally for participating in multinational military operations, but also provides learners with peer support opportunities where they can cooperate with their peers to achieve more than what they are capable of and enhance their interpersonal communication required in the military. CALL also benefits learners by enabling them to monitor their progress and promoting critical thinking.

Nuclear Data for Astrophysics Research: A New Online Paradigm

Michael S. Smith 한국물리학회 2011 THE JOURNAL OF THE KOREAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY Vol.59 No.23

Our knowledge of a wide range of astrophysical processes depends crucially on nuclear physics data. While new nuclear information is being generated at an ever-increasing rate, the methods to process this information into astrophysical simulations have changed little over the decades and cannot keep pace. Working online, ``cloud computing'', may be the methodology breakthrough needed to ensure that the latest nuclear data quickly gets into astrophysics codes. The successes of the first utilization of cloud computing for nuclear astrophysics will be described. The advantages of cloud computing for the broader nuclear data community are also discussed.

Evolution under unpredictable environmental conditions: quantitative genetics of larval life-history traits in a myobatrachid frog Crinia georgiana

Michael J. Smith,장이권 한국통합생물학회 2012 Animal cells and systems Vol.16 No.5

The southwestern Australian frog Crinia georgiana (Anura; Myobatrachidae) inhabits ephemeral pools in which the tadpoles often face desiccation. Under these conditions selection on tadpoles can be severe and can directly affect fitness during the aquatic as well as the terrestrial developmental stages. A quantitative genetic study using a half-sib breeding design was conducted to understand the genetic effects on larval life-history traits. We found no significant additive genetic variance in any of larval traits. Except for hatching period, heritability estimates based on females were high in egg size, larval period, snout-vent length, and weight at metamorphosis, suggesting non-additive genetic effects. These results indicate that any response to selection during hatching and larval periods should be predominately governed by non-additive genetic effects in C. georgiana.

Evolution under unpredictable environmental conditions: quantitative genetics of larval life-history traits in a myobatrachid frog Crinia georgiana

Smith, Michael J.,Jang, Yikweon The Korean Society for Integrative Biology 2012 Animal cells and systems Vol.16 No.5

The southwestern Australian frog Crinia georgiana (Anura; Myobatrachidae) inhabits ephemeral pools in which the tadpoles often face desiccation. Under these conditions selection on tadpoles can be severe and can directly affect fitness during the aquatic as well as the terrestrial developmental stages. A quantitative genetic study using a half-sib breeding design was conducted to understand the genetic effects on larval life-history traits. We found no significant additive genetic variance in any of larval traits. Except for hatching period, heritability estimates based on females were high in egg size, larval period, snout-vent length, and weight at metamorphosis, suggesting non-additive genetic effects. These results indicate that any response to selection during hatching and larval periods should be predominately governed by non-additive genetic effects in C. georgiana.

The New Woman Arrives Again: A Review of the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea’s Exhibition on "Sin yŏsŏng"

Kevin Michael Smith 고려대학교 민족문화연구원 2019 Cross-Currents Vol.0 No.33

This review essay examines the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea’s (MMCA) 2017–2018 exhibition on the “New Woman” (Sin yŏsŏng) and its contradictory celebration and critique of the multifaceted modern woman whose consumerist as well as anti-patriarchal qualities allow for mixed and often contradictory interpretations and political trajectories. Through close readings of paintings, video installations, and other works on display pertaining to the topics of objectification, commodity fetishism, and the division of labor, this essay parses the various representations of Korea’s new woman as well as her legacy in the present. The reviewer suggests that the tension between the different characteristics of the modern woman speaks to a wider ambivalence in the collective historical memory of the Japanese colonial period (1910–1945) in contemporary South Korea, which simultaneously embraces two contradictory positions: repudiation of the Japanese colonial project on the one hand and recuperation of the capitalist development initiated by colonization on the other.

Japanese Modernism at a "Branch Point": On the Museum of Modern Art, Hayama’s "1937" Exhibition

Kevin Michael Smith 고려대학교 민족문화연구원 2018 Cross-Currents Vol.0 No.26

This article frames the Museum of Modern Art, Hayama’s 2017 exhibition on Japanese modernism during the simultaneously vibrant and tumultuous 1930s through the lens of Japan’s uneven capitalist development and wartime mobilization. The author suggests that the exhibition’s unique international scope, rich selection of figurative and abstract modernist works, and emphasis on the year 1937 as a nexus through which the decade’s competing tendencies can be reevaluated readily disclose the constitutive, dialectical relationships between historical difference, total war, and modernist form in imperial Japan and its colonies. The exhibition’s featured works and curator Asaki Yuka’s direction together emphasized the inseparability of Japanese modernism from the encroaching conditions of world war during the late 1930s, thereby contributing to a growing body of scholarship and series of exhibitions challenging the received oppositions between autonomous modernism, proletarian realism, and wartime propaganda. After introductory remarks on the reassessment of 1930s-era Japanese avant-garde aesthetics, the article provides a series of close readings of significant paintings included in the exhibition, including Murai Masanari’s 1937 Urban, Matsumoto Shunsuke’s 1935 Building, and Uchida Iwao’s 1937 Port. These formal readings explore how the year 1937 marked a pivotal “branch point” for Japanese society, not only in terms of the confluence of various artistic trends but also in terms of the fierce opposition between socialism and fascism that bifurcated potentialities for Japan’s future.

From Pretext to Post-Text: Shakespeare Plays of Sulayman Al-Bassam

Piers Michael Smith 한국셰익스피어학회 2018 셰익스피어 비평 Vol.54 No.2

Shakespeare’s work is often adapted to make a political point that refers to geographically distant present-day contexts. In a sense, the Shakespearean play becomes a pretext or alibi enabling the new work to discuss socio-political issues under cover of the former’s literary prestige. The Kuwaiti playwright Sulayman Al-Bassam has adapted three of Shakespeare’s plays in order to explore such issues pertaining to the Middle East. The last of these plays ‘The Speaker’s Progress’ deals with hopes and expectations following the Arab Spring of 2011. After considering this play and its implications, the paper goes on to suggest that, willy-nilly, Al-Bassam’s trilogy of plays—like other mediated work—becomes less of a vehicle for displaying and commenting on uncomfortable home-truths and more of an outlet for a larger post-textual literary turn.

An Examination of the Relative Significance of Convergence & Divergence in Employment of FLA & SLA Concepts

마이클 스미스(Michael D. Smith),로버트 도머(Robert Dormer),김동영(Dongyoung Kim) 미래영어영문학회 2016 영어영문학 Vol.21 No.1

이 논문은 제1언어 습득과 제2언어 학습에 관한 주요 연구들을 고찰한다. 특히 제1언어 습득(FLA)과 제2언어 학습(SLA)의 유사점과 차이점을 중심으로 주요 연구들을 살펴보았으며, 이를 통해 FLA와 SLA에서 공통되는 과정들의 존재 여부와 이들의 의의를 살펴보았다. 이를 위해 주요 문헌들을 심리적 측면, 인지적인 측면, 결정적 시기 가설(Critical Period Hypothesis) 측면, 보편문법(Universal Grammar) 측면에서 분석하였다. 결론적으로 FLA와 SLA은 공통점보다 차이점이 많다는 것을 알 수 있다. 그러나 원어민 수준의 제1언어와 2언어를 습득/학습하기에는 제한이 있다는 점과 FLA와 SLA에서 보편문법의 영향을 받을 수 있다는 점에서 FLA와 SLA는 연관되어 있는 과정이라 할 수 있다.